Agile Delivery Manager

Role purpose

Delivery and team leadership

• Facilitate PI planning, reviews, and other ceremonies; advise on people, processes, and tools and coach teams.
• Blend traditional project management and agile development practices to suit initiatives of different sizes.
• Build a safe, trusting team environment and practice servant leadership, supporting discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
• Lead integrated programme planning and help turn epic roadmaps into programme backlogs and plans for team backlogs.
• Maintain the Definition of Done, quality plans, sustainable pace, and an agile project management tool such as ScrumDesk or JIRA.
• Hold teams accountable, remove blockers, improve backlog throughput, and mentor team members.
• Attend stand-ups and scrum-of-scrums to track progress and issues and flag external matters to the team.
• Support product backlog and schedule transparency and help improve IT service performance.
• Establish agile governance and continuous improvement; assess velocity, defect rates, and visibility for stakeholders.
• Support cost estimation, total cost of ownership, budget tracking, demand forecasting, and procurement RFx scheduling.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree or honours qualification (12+3 or equivalent) in Information Technology or a related field.
• At least 8 years of relevant experience.
• SAFe and PMI-ACP certification and at least 5 years of practical Scrum management experience.
• Proven leadership and project delivery in a matrix organization with global teams for a large organization.
• Experience delivering agile work within large technology change programmes.
• Experience with software delivery tools such as ServiceNow ITBM, MS Office, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Good architectural knowledge of large-scale systems.
• Ability to communicate specialist information clearly to stakeholders; strong communication and people skills.
• PMI, PRINCE2, or CSM certifications are desirable.

Salary and benefits

• The employer advertises an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits, including flight and hotel discounts. No salary cadence or amount is provided.